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About Sponsor

Founded in 1990, Jamba Juice is a leading restaurant retailer of better-for-you food and beverage offerings, including great tasting fruit smoothies, juices, and teas, hot oatmeal made with organic steel cut oats, wraps, salads, sandwiches, and California Flatbreads™, and a variety of baked goods and snacks. Learn more about Jamba Juice.

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About Sponsor

Founded in 1990, Jamba Juice is a leading restaurant retailer of better-for-you food and beverage offerings, including great tasting fruit smoothies, juices, and teas, hot oatmeal made with organic steel cut oats, wraps, salads, sandwiches, and California Flatbreads™, and a variety of baked goods and snacks. Learn more about Jamba Juice.

Passionate about supporting schools and communities by promoting health, wellness and physical activities, Jamba Juice is sponsoring the It’s All About the Fruit grant program to provide schools with fruit trees to create engaging nutrition and gardening experiences. Observing and exploring fruit production gives a deeper understanding and appreciation for this essential element of our diet. Recipients will be selected based on plans to promote nutrition education, ideas for incorporating fruit tree activities into the curriculum, and ability to sustain the program over multiple years.

Through the Sip to Support a Garden™ program, schools and community gardens can earn year-round funding for their garden programs by distributing Jamba’s Community Appreciation Card. Participation is simple: Sign up your school garden or organization on-line; Your organization will receive a Jamba- Kit that includes swipe cards for supporters, program details and other information; Start swiping — each time a supporter uses the swipe card for purchases at participating Jamba Juice locations, Jamba will donate 12% of the purchase to support gardens. 10% will be donated directly back to your garden organization and 2% will be donated to support “It’s All About the Fruit” fruit tree grants administered by the NGA.

Who is Eligible to Apply

The grant is open to schools and community garden programs in the United States gardening with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18.

Grant Packages

20 recipients will receive fruit trees valued at $500 and the Jamba Juice It’s All About the Fruit Youth Garden Guide. Trees will be selected based on recommended varieties for each area.

Submission Process

We are no longer accepting applications for this Award program. Applications were due by November 29, 2010.

We will notify you about the status of your application by January 19, 2011. Awards will be distributed in spring of 2011 based on the optimum planting time for your location. Winning applicants must be willing and able to pick up the trees by a date specified by NGA.

Award Fulfillment

We will notify you about the status of your application by January 19, 2011. Awards will be distributed in spring of 2011 based on the optimum planting time for your location. Winning applicants must be willing and able to pick up the trees by a date specified by NGA.

Reporting Requirement

Grant awardees will be required to submit a year-end impact report. Programs that do not complete the final report will not be eligible to apply for future awards.

Kids Gardening and the National Gardening Association actively work with schools and communities across the country to provide educational resources and build gardens to promote health, wellness, and sustainability.